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![]() In 1993, I was a guru IBM mainframe programmer and talented Unix/C hacker. The summer was drawing to a close and my new employer wanted to change all of that. The company had just landed a small project from a non-profit and they put me on it. Time to complete: 4 weeks. Tool of choice: Paradox for Windows, version 1.0. I had never used Microsoft Windows before. Needless to say, there was quite a learning curve. I sat down in front of the machine with Paradox loaded and . . . finally got that project finished in five weeks. After that brutal introduction, I was on fire with Paradox. I knew this was exactly the tool to take to the market. In 1993, Paradox could deliver slick, intuitive applications that far exceeded customer expectations with a much shorter development time than compiled applications. Although the core of the product has changed relatively little over the past decade, it is still a prime contender for rapidly producing solid database applications. Two years later, I formed my own consulting and application development business, SynApps Development Corporation, and delivered solutions authored exclusively in Paradox. At that time, Paradox appeared to be in near-universal use, at least in my area of the United States (Vermont). To increase our service area, I opened a second office in central/western Pennsylvania. The market visibly shifted within a few years, and I have had to diversify somewhat with Delphi and Visual Studio, but I am still servicing all of those original applications delivered in 1993-1996, as well as continuing to deliver new projects in Paradox. While many fine development tools have become available in recent years, I continue to be amazed at the functionality that Paradox users seem to be able to wring out of Paradox. When I am not in front of the LCD, I spend as much time as I can with my wife and children, and then reading (history, philosophy, science, literature) and writing (both private and public). Paradox Community Newsgroups |
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